Bought 2 tankers, broke Iran sanctions, gets prison term
A complex scheme to evade U.S. Iran sanctions has not turned out too well for onetime tanker owner Behrouz Mokhtari, 72, of McLean, Va. This week, he was sentenced to 41 months
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Iran Sanctions: U.S. seeks forfeiture of oil on Maranakis tanker
The United States has filed a forfeiture complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that all oil aboard a Liberian-flagged vessel, the M/T Achilleas (IMO No. 9398072),
Iran sanctions: Feds charge two, move to seize $12.3 million of funds
Iranian nationals Amir Dianat, 55, and Kamran Lajmiri, 42, were on May 1 charged with violating U.S. export laws and sanctions against Iran. In a two-count criminal complaint filed in the U.S.
Bankrupt shipowner violated Iran sanctions
FEBRUARY 6, 2017 — While new Iranian sanctions may well be in the works, Nobo Su’s TMT Group has just been issued a Finding of Violation in relation to the sanctions that
State lifts Iran sanctions on three companies
APRIL 15, 2013 — The Department of State said Friday that the United States is lifting sanctions applied almost two years ago to Tanker Pacific Management (TPM), Société Anonyme Monégasque D’Administration Maritime
U.S. slaps Iran sanctions on Greek shipowner
MARCH 15, 2013 — The U.S. Department of the Treasury yesterday imposed sanctions on a Greek businessman, Dr. Dimitris Cambis, saying that he helped Iran evade international oil sanctions. Now named Ocean
Treasury adds NITC to Iran sanctions list
JULY 13, 2012 — The United States is imposing additional sanctions on Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile proliferation networks. Yesterday it announced a number of actions described by Treasury Under Secretary for
New Obama Iran sanctions hit maritime companies
More maritime companies have fallen foul of U.S. efforts to shut down Iran’s nuclear program — including Israel’s Ofer Brothers Group. It is one of two companies on which sanctions are being
Tanker grabbed by Iran has sanctions-busting background
This morning, the United Kingdom Maritime Trades Office reported that a vessel had been boarded, when 50 miles northeast of Sohar, Oman by 4-5 armed unauthorized boarders wearing black masks and black
U.S. slaps sanctions designations on five Iranian tanker captains
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today took action against the captains of the five ships that U.S.-sanctioned Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and